Episode list

The Persson family tries to adapt itself to a new life in the city. At the same time the Mohlin family tries to adapt itself to the social life in the village. Lars-Erik Dahl gets an exemption warrant from the military service. He feels worthless and moves to Stockholm with the intention of never coming back to the village again. Gunnar Löfgren calls his parents, Henning and Jenny Löfgren, and asks them if his son, Göran Löfgren, could stay at their farm for a while. Göran has become drug addicted. Some months in the countryside would keep him away from bad influences in the city.

Göran Löfgren feels at ease at his grandparents' farm in the village. Leif and Bambi, two of his old pals from Gothenburg, suddenly turn up in a car, which is decorated with symbols and slogans connected with the hippie movement. When Willy Strid one morning finds out that a burglary has been committed in his garage, he suspects Leif and Bambi, and vehemently accuses Göran for bringing these two drug addicts to the village.

It's autumn and the villagers gather for the annual elk-hunting. Mattias Dahl is the best shot of them all, but when he shoots at an elk, which comes very close to him, the elk runs away. His father, Ragnar Dahl, criticizes him and Mattias feels humiliated in front of all the others. He gets drunk to kill his annoyance. One of the hunters notifies that his dog has found Mattias's elk. The shot had gone straight to the heart of the elk, which had dropped dead some hundred metres away. Mattias wants his father to beg him forgiveness, but Ragnar refuses.

The Persson family has hard time adjusting themselves to life in the big city. Evert Persson sees the wretched life of a fellow-worker, his daughter Eva cannot find a work or a friend, and his son Anders is mobbed by his schoolmates. At the same time the Mohlin family cannot adjust themselves to life in the countryside, when the days become darker. The sailor Per Löfgren is in port in Gdansk. After a visit to an art exhibition, he has hard to find his way back to the ship. He arrives one hour too late, and is provoked into a fight with the first mate.

Autumn has come, the evenings are getting dark and the Mohlin family notices that life in the countryside is associated with certain difficulties as winter approaches.

Siblings Per and Ingrid Löfgren have now returned to the village.